The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-26

evening there was q INT to the effect that
the negroes were massing on the 1errebonne,
about q mile and a half from the city; 1t
oughly equipped, and an attack upon the
city was imminent. 4 squad OF citizens in
mediately repaired to the scene of the threat
ened danger, but the crowd had dispersed.
| An attack upon the city liz m~omentarlly ex-
pected, and citizens and soldieus are alike
prepared for any emergency that may ARISE.
A guard placed upon the outskirts of the
town was fired upon last night by q negro
concealed il a ditch.
Negro Women Continue to Make Threats
But No Further Trouble Probable
The Cox Brothers Released from jail.
THIBoDAUx, Nov. 25.-T0-day Thibodapx
enjoyed q day of comparative quiet, and q
better feeling is existing among all ~claBsea.
There has been no Relation, however, Of
the vigilance of citizens and military for the
preservation of law and order in ibis COM
munity and parish. Throughout the day
guards were o the watch, and the entire
own and it's outskirts were thoroughly pa
trolled. Few negroes are to be seen, al
though no objection has been urged against
the presence here of those peaeeably in
clined.
This morning a representative Of THE
TIMEs-DEMocRAT. with some Of the military,
visited q number of the plantations in the
vicinity of Thibodaux, with a view of ascer-
tanning the exact condition of things in these
localities. Mr.. R. II. Allen mas one Of the
largest plantations in Lafourche. 1t is stu
ated Immediately in front of the own and
employs about 300 Iaborers. Mr.. Allen said
the strike had cost him about
oEE-THIRD OF HIS CROP,
| a.1 fhof tho dau,oro1fro %ior arno~r his IN
groes was so great that some of those re-
naming were rendered totally unfit for duty.
He doesn't blame the negroes so much as the
walking delegate. whose chief business for
the past few months, he says. has been to
harangue and ill-advise his less intelligent
brother.
The splendid plantation Of Mr.. Andrew
Price, about 3 mile and a half from the city,
was also visited. Mr.. Price said that he lost
about one-third Of his sugar crop il conse-
quence of thes strike, but that thore had been
no trouble On his place. The. action Of the
negroes, he said, WAS q surprise to him, es-
peclally as he had made arrangements with
his hands for the grinding season. For two
weeks they had worked with seeming salts
faction and no complaints were made. When
he found that the strike had actually been
ordered and the laborers had Withdrawn
from the fields ne endeayored TO arrive ct
some amicable adjustment Of existing diff
culties, whatever they might be-. The ne
groes, nevertheless. left the place.
Within the past day or two the old hands
have been quietly returning, and whenevera
proposition to return was made in goodfGith
Mr.. Price has never failed to accept it. He
charges eli the recent MISUNDERSTANDING
between the whites and blacks to negro
school teachers and BARRIERS in the town of
Ihlbodaux. These people, he says, are re-
ally doing nothing. but inspiring the igno-
rant and hard-working negro element to law
leSsness and strife.
negro by the name Of Lawless, who was
seen by the correspondent, rents several
acres Of land from Mr.. Price, and is working
twenty-six hands on his own account. He is
not . striker, but, on the contrary. is work
ing faithfully and lndustriously. He makes
$4,000 worth of cane every year, which he
sells to Mr.: Price. He deprecates the present
strike, saying That there Was no cause what
Felix Boyd and Mat. Brooks, two of the re-
turned strikers on Mr.. Prices place, say that
they Were urged to a strike by the knights of
members. The knights insisted on the strike,
promising six pounds of meat and a peck Of
meal to each striker while out of employ
ment; The first week they kkept their prom
bility to further provide for the strikers.
Mr.. b. A. Wormalds Laurel Valley place
was also visited. His laborers were quietly
The woods and cane thickets in the ilnme-
date vicinity of Thibodaux are
FILLED WITH FUGITIVE NEGRO
who have abandoned their homes in the
town. A number of volunteers ont looking
for bodies of negroes supposed to be killed in
the affair Of Wednesday, report the negro
women az still threatening the peace of this
community.
found this afternoon in a thicket on Mr.. Al
lens Rlenzl plantation, on the other side of
the bayou. They had evidently been shot in
the affrsy Of Wednesday, and taking refuge
of any kind. The report, of the coroner is
~ianxlouslv awaited, and although prom
sed to-day had not ap to o late hour this
evening been forthcoming.
1t is, however, understood that fully thirty
negroes have sacrificed their lives in the riot
of Wednesday, although returns thus far
have not eqgated that number. Quite a
bit whether theyhave been killed or skipped
the country" is not known.
Yesterday morning Judge Taylor Beatti-r
received an anonymous communication to
the effect that his life wac in jeopardy. Judge
Beattie has incurred the enmity OF the ne
groes by the part he has taken in the present
affair In q coaversation with q representa-
Judge stated that he had Q~everaI times been
warned that the assassin wal on the watch
for him and that his life was in his own
hands.
He further stated that he had exhausted
every means within reason to bring the ne
gro TO a sense of his real condition.: that he
had advised HIM time and again to beware of
and avoid those who. would plunge him into
difficulties with which he was wholly unable
to cope: that he would afford him the largest
protection with respect both to life and prop
erty. but that when the shot of Monday
h Ieft fo VS. b1 nr to do eh saye t Taf n afot assisti further hsr
good citizens in the preservation of law and
order. These people, it was stated, had been
the means Of doing ~incalculable damage in
the parish. Their attacks upon the people,
he said, was not only unwarranHd, but pre-
medItated and malicious, SO that question of
the
SUPREMACY OF TIL WHITES
oyer the blacks Or vice versa became the all
Capt. Adams, of the Louisiana Rifles, prof
fered the services of his force to protect the
Jail in case Williams. one of the agltators,
against whom there il much feeling, and
therein, bnt the sheriff, in consideration of
the fact that there was nc legal justification
for his arrest, concluded to avoid the re-
sponsibilty OF holding him.
On all the plantations, as far as heard from,
the laborefs are returning TO the fields, and
express themselves as ready and willing to
resume work..
AT noon yesterday some shooting from am
bush by negroes was repoESEd about two
miles from town, on the other side of the
bayou; Inc attack, Ibis stated, was made on
recently imported laborers. nome of whom
visited the scene of the shooting, but could
ascertain nothing beyond what ia stated
above. ~
A was afloat to-day that there was
about to be an uprising of the colored people
in Terrebonne parish, brought about by the
same causes as those which produced the
riot in this place. The white people, how
ever, are fully prepared for any attack that
may be made in that parish.
Messrs. German and Molaison, who were
injured in the affair of Wednesday. are
rapidly on the mend. The Louisiana Rifles
lery are stationed at the courthouse, but at
night are picketed On the suburbs of the
town.
Gov. McEnery, who it was thought, would
be here to-day was. telegraphed by Lieut..
GOV. knobloch hat his presence at
this time veg T1nnecassarv. neaca heinr 10